Andrew M. Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It would need a new special case configuration option to map all
> servers expect specified exceptions.

Yes, and I hope such option will appear one day :)

> It would be annoying to change the configuration file for every server
> that doesn't work with both http://www.foo and http://foo.

One would only have to change the configuration file for servers that
don't work with http://foo.

> At the moment the worst that happens is that the same server is cached
> twice, with this new option it would make some servers inaccessible
> (except by config file editing).

It would only affect people which set this option to strip www by
default in the config file, and so this option would only be used by
those who don't mind editing the config file when encountering an
inaccessible server.

For me having the same server cached twice is much worse than having to
edit the config file occasionally. It is much worse, because disk space
is wasted and I have WWWOFFLE on a flash card, and flash is not too
cheap, and sometimes a page is requested even though a cached version is
available, but in a non-www or with-www URL-version. Currently I put
every server which happens to appear in links in two different versions
(with www and without) in the Alias section in the config file, and that
is for sure more work than just putting the ones which don't work
without www in there. Therefore I encourage you to implement such
option.

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